Joyce C. McCann

Research scientist and long-time collaborator of Bruce Ames. Co-authored the series of systematic reviews that translated the Triage Theory from a hypothesis into a body of evidence, testing the theory nutrient by nutrient: vitamin K, vitamin D, selenium and others, each time showing that the functions preserved under marginal intake are the short-term functions, and that the long-term functions (chromosomal integrity, mitochondrial maintenance, immune surveillance) are the ones that quietly give way.

Why she matters here

McCann is the methodological link between the Ames laboratory and the operational program this resource proposes. Her reviews establish that the Triage Theory is not a metaphor but a discipline, one that can be applied to any nutrient for which a hierarchy of functions is known.